moonlight requisitionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

moonlight requisition (複数形 moonlight requisitions)

1. (military slang) Unauthorized taking of materiel; theft of supplies for use in one's own unit.
   • 1966, Margaret Craighill, “The Women's Army Corps”, in Robert Anderson, Albert Glass, Robert Bernucci, William Mullins, editors, Neuropsychiatry in World War II, volume 1, →OCLC, page 468:

     They were clever in finding local material, such as parachutes, for making bedcovers or curtains, and so-called "moonlight requisitions" were sources of supply for material to make furniture.

2. (slang, euphemistic) Theft or receipt of stolen goods.
   • 1973, John Postlewait, Harry Knudson, “Some experiences in land acquisition for a land disposal system for sewage effluent”, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Recycling Municipal Sludges and Effluents on Land: July 9-13, 1973, Champaign, Illinois, Washington: Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, pages 33–34:

     One problem that became apparent from almost the first acquisition, was that of vandalism and pilfering. It seemed that as soon as a party moved, the area "jungle telegraph" would alert those in the habit of making "moonlight requisitions" to become active.